Administering Applications

Overview

IBM Mobile Foundation provides several ways to administer MobileFirst applications in development or in production. MobileFirst Operations Console is the main tool with which you can monitor all deployed MobileFirst applications from a centralized web-based console.

The main operations that you can perform through MobileFirst Operations Console are:

Administration roles

Not every kind of administration user can perform every administration operation. MobileFirst Operations Console, and all administration tools, have four different roles defined for administration of MobileFirst applications. The following

MobileFirst administration roles are defined:

Monitor
In this role, a user can monitor deployed MobileFirst projects and deployed artifacts. This role is read-only.

Operator
An Operator can perform all mobile application management operations, but cannot add or remove application versions or adapters.

Deployer
In this role, a user can perform the same operations as the Operator, but can also deploy applications and adapters.

Administrator
In this role, a user can perform all application administration operations.

Administration tools

MobileFirst Operations Console is not the only way to administer MobileFirst applications. Mobile Foundation also provides other tools to incorporate administration operations into your build and deployment process.

With this set of REST services, you can perform the same operations that you can do in MobileFirst Operations Console. You can manage applications, adapters, and, for example, upload a new version of an application or disable an old version.